Can Quicktime 7.7.9 automatically re-install the web plugins?

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Can Quicktime 7.7.9 automatically re-install the web plugins?

I am familiar with the silent install procedure for Quicktime. In the past, this has always worked fine. However, with QuickTime 7.7.9, it will deliberately strip out the web plugins during the install/upgrade. Documentation indicates that in order to get the plugins back, re-run the installer and specifically select them.

Clearly, Apple wants to phase out the web plugins. But their own movie trailer website (see http://trailers.apple.com) *requires* them. So I'm confused as to why 7.7.9 strips them out, and especially why it doesn't seem, on the surface, to have a way to automatically include them in the installation (or re-add them) if desired.

So...Is there some .msi switch that will automate the inclusion/reinclusion of the web-plugins into the QuickTime installation (so I can potentially get 400 machines to continue to be able to stream QuickTime content from Apple's own website without manually reinstalling on each of them?)? Or is there an .mst file I can use/create that will allow this?

QuickTime 7.7.9-OTHER, Windows 7

Posted on Jan 11, 2016 11:11 AM

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mepartain Author

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Jan 11, 2016 2:01 PM in response to mepartain

Ok - happily, I answered my own question. If you open up the MSI in Orca (or whatever MSI editor), you'll see there's a switch available: INSTALLLEVEL

So:

msiexec /i Quicktime.msi /qn ... INSTALLLEVEL=4 ...

...will install all the legacy stuff (including web plugins). If you want to really get detailed, I suppose you could create a .mst in Orca that specifies INSTALLLEVEL 3 for the legacy stuff and web components. Then you can specify INSTALLLEVEL=3 and leave out the legacy stuff you DON'T want (like the java plugin).

Hope this helps someone...

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harbit

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Feb 18, 2016 12:56 AM in response to mepartain

Hi there;

I have the same issue encountered - where I needed to deploy to multiple clients, are you able to clarify on the syntax to perform coz when testing the above steps doesn't do anything at all.

msiexec /i QuickTime.msi INSTALLLEVEL=4 /passive

msiexec /i QuickTime.msi ADDLOCAL="LegacyQuickTimeFeatures" /passive

msiexec /i QuickTime.msi REINSTALLMODE=omus ADDLOCAL="LegacyQuickTimeFeatures" /passive

All of the above I tried but it doesn't resolve my issue

Issue : Re-Install Quicktime 7.7.9 with Optional QuickTime Features installed on local hard drive

appreciate your help

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